Arlington Buys J&J Worldwide

Arlington Capital Partners has acquired J&J Worldwide Services. This buy is Arlington’s fourth investment for its fifth fund which closed in June 2019 with $1.7 billion of capital. Austin-based J&J Worldwide Services is an outsourced

Sonoma Brands Building Jerky Giant

Sonoma Brands has acquired Chef’s Cut Real Jerky. This buy follows Sonoma’s May acquisition of jerky maker KRAVE Pure Foods from Amplify Snack Brands, a business unit of The Hershey Company. Chef’s Cut’s product line

KKR Partners Up with Danaher Executive

KKR has partnered with William “Dan” Daniel to seek and acquire industrial business headquartered in the United States. Mr. Daniel was the executive vice president of Danaher from 2008 through March 2020. Danaher designs, manufactures

Succession Plan Initiated at Levine Leichtman

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has announced a management succession plan that names Matthew Frankel and Michael Weinberg as managing partners. LLCP was founded in 1984 and its co-founders – Arthur Levine and Lauren Leichtman

AMB :- Private equity activity declines significantly in Q2 2020, dry powder climbs towards $1.5tn

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The COVID-19 pandemic had relatively little effect on Q1 activity, not impacting European or North American countries until the end of the quarter, said Preqin. However, the slowdown was very...Article Link

Property names rake in $1.5bn in bonds

Chinese property companies Kaisa Group Holdings, Yango Group Co and Overseas Chinese Town (Asia) Holdings raised a combined $1.5bn from their bonds on Wednesday.

Zhenro Services, Greentown seal HK listings

Property managers Zhenro Services Group and Greentown Management, along with developer Ganglong China, all priced IPOs this week, albeit with different responses from the market.

Brown and Mehra to lead new sustainable DCM team at Citi

Philip Brown and Sanaa Mehra are leading a new unit at Citi, the latest the bank has designed for its sustainable finance business.

Tahoe defaults onshore as liquidity dries up

Chinese property company Tahoe Group defaulted on an onshore bond this week because of struggles with tight liquidity, limited market access and poor corporate governance. But its shares still ended up soaring amid a mainland-wide

Nauta Tech Invest V holds €120m first close

Pan-European venture capital specialist Nauta Capital has held a €120m first close for its fifth fund, Nauta Tech Invest V.

Forbion holds first close for Growth Opportunities Fund

Life-sciences-focused venture capital firm Forbion has held a first close on €185m for its Growth Opportunities Fund, which will focus on investments at a later stage than the firm's previous vehicles in European biotech companies.

Concirrus bags new VC investment just months after closing Series B round

Concirrus, an insurance software developer, has raised another $6m in funding, hot on the heels of its recent $20m Series B round.

Nauta Capital nears €500m AUM thanks to Fund V first close, reveals debut deal from new vehicle

Nauta Capital has brought its assets under management to almost €500m through the first close of latest venture capital investment fund.

Los Angeles County pension fund seeks to cast wider net for co-investment deals

The pension system has struggled to access co-investment deals through its $6.5bn private equity portfolio

Fledgling private equity house bd-capital picks probiotics pioneer Symprove for debut deal

Newly-launched private equity house bd-capital has sealed its first investment by backing Symprove, a startup attempting to disrupt the £35bn probiotics market.

LGT Capital gets double fund commitment from British Business Bank unit through £500m investment programme

The British Business Bank has made its largest commitment to date from its £500m managed funds programme, by committing to a pair of LGT Capital Partners fundraises.

Pictet seals $1.16bn fund of funds close, 50% larger than predecessor vehicle

Pictet Alternative Advisors has raised more than $1.16bn for the final close of Monte Rosa V, its latest in a series of diversified, multi-manager private equity fund of funds.

Here’s what the stats say about LP and GP activity during the coronavirus

The impact of the coronavirus crisis is likely to be felt around the world for years to come, with the economic aftermath potentially outstripping the 2008 financial crash. And that uncertainty over how the future

VC firm Forbion holds €185m first close for its life sciences fund

The firm expects to reach the fund's €250m target by the end of this year

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